NMLP P-043018 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Our Lady of the Flowers

Jean Genet · 'Aux dépens d'un amateur', Monte-Carlo (false imprint; printed clandestinely in Paris) · 1943

The Monte-Carlo imprint is itself a fiction — the book was produced in Paris, with Paul Morihien (Cocteau's secretary) and Robert Denoël behind it — so the imprint line is the identification point, not a place of printing to be checked

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-043018 for "Our Lady of the Flowers" by Jean Genet (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043018, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).